An organization is demanding DuPont provide the documents showing how environmental damages caused by the company will be addressed following a spinoff of its Performance Chemicals division.

Keep Your Promises DuPont Monday said many of the liabilities are from the contamination of drinking water in the Mid-Ohio Valley with the chemical C8 from the company’s Washington Works plant. DuPont has provided incomplete information about what will happen to the environmental and litigation liabilities for which the company is responsible, the organization said…… Read More

By Naomi Nix | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com NEWARK – Newark’s city government has filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company left a neighborhood contaminated with toxic chemicals for decades and never cleaned it up, officials announced today. DuPont Co. and other companies profited off of… Read More

By Laura Arenschield, The Columbus Dispatch A federal judge has ruled there is enough evidence that chemicals from a DuPont Teflon plant contaminated a drinking-water supply in southeastern Ohio for the matter to go to trial. The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Algenon L. Marbley, issued on Tuesday, answers some fundamental environmental questions about… Read More

By Chris Dickerson, West Virginia Record PARKERSBURG – A group has made public $9 million in invoices paid by DuPont to a firm that is overseeing the medical monitoring program for C-8 litigation. But records also show that the C-8 Medical Monitoring Program ran by Michael Rozen’s firm, Feinberg Rozen, has paid out just over… Read More

C-8 medical monitoring invoices released Chris Dickerson Jan. 27, 2015, 2:16pm PARKERSBURG – A group has made public $9 million in invoices paid by DuPont to a firm that is overseeing the medical monitoring program for C-8 litigation. But records also show that the C-8 Medical Monitoring Program ran by Michael Rozen’s firm, Feinberg Rozen,… Read More

By Jeffrey Saulton, News and Sentinel.com/The Marietta Times PARKERSBURG -Recently released invoices dating back to February 2013 of payments by DuPont to the director of the medical monitoring program show $9 million has been paid for administration as part of the C8 lawsuit settlement while a small percentage has been paid for medical claims. Keep… Read More

By Kyla Asbury, West Virginia Record CHARLESTON – An organization whose goal is to hold DuPont accountable for commitments to the people of the Greater Mid-Ohio Valley was launched Wednesday with a website called Keep Your Promises DuPont. Keep Your Promises is a community-based organization whose members lived and worked in the Greater Mid-Ohio Valley… Read More

By Evan Bevins, News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG – A watchdog group launched a website Wednesday it says is aimed at making sure DuPont honors its obligations over exposure to the chemical known as C8. The website KeepYourPromisesDuPont.com contains information about C8, an invitation for people to share how the chemical has affected them and their… Read More

By Sarah Tinchner, West Virginia State Journal Following a 2005 settlement agreement to address DuPont’s contamination of communities’ drinking water with the chemical C-8, Mid-Ohio Valley residents launched KeepYourPromisesDuPont.com Jan. 7, which aims to hold DuPont accountable for commitments made to the people of the Greater Mid-Ohio Valley. The agreement spurred from a 2001 class-action lawsuit filed… Read More

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The Keep Your Promises campaign was developed in partnership with the Action Network Fund, a nonprofit organization that empowers citizens to stand up for their communities and their livelihoods in the face of corporate abuse.